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Robotics Software Design Principles

A skill for designing and reviewing robot software modules using SOLID, real-time rate separation, and fail-safe defaults.

Dev & CodingIntermediate★ 366⑂ 47AI score 8/10Last updated: Aug 12, 2026

What it does

  • Presents 12 robotics-specific design principles (single responsibility, dependency inversion, open-closed, interface segregation, Liskov substitution, rate separation, fail-safe defaults, config over code, idempotency, observability, composability, graceful degradation) with bad/good Python examples.
  • Shows abstraction patterns like ArmInterface and CameraInterface so the same high-level code runs in simulation and on real hardware.
  • Includes a table of typical loop rates (1000Hz safety monitor down to 0.1Hz task management) plus thread/buffer patterns that keep slow perception from blocking control.
  • Ships a per-principle checklist table you can use directly in code review.

Who it's for

  • Python developers building modules on ROS2, MuJoCo, UR5/Franka or similar robotics stacks.
  • Teams that want one codebase for both simulation and real hardware (sim-to-real).
  • Tech leads setting refactoring and review standards for a robotics codebase.

Example uses

  1. "My RobotController owns the camera, planner and driver — split the responsibilities." → Refactor into perception/planning/execution modules.
  2. "Adding a new gripper vendor forces me to edit core code." → Plugin registration architecture and segregated interfaces.
  3. "My control loop can't hold 100Hz." → Move perception to its own thread and read the latest value through a locked buffer.

· · · Install guide · · ·

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git clone https://github.com/arpitg1304/robotics-agent-skills.git /tmp/robotics-agent-skills && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r /tmp/robotics-agent-skills/skills/robotics-software-principles ~/.claude/skills/

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  1. Open a terminal.
  2. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/arpitg1304/robotics-agent-skills.git
  3. Create the skills directory: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  4. Copy just this skill: cp -r robotics-agent-skills/skills/robotics-software-principles ~/.claude/skills/
  5. Restart Claude Code and confirm robotics-software-principles appears in your skill list.
  6. Trigger it with a prompt like "Review my robot module architecture against SOLID principles."
View source on GitHub ↗License: Apache-2.0